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No. 60,187. Patented Dec. 4, 186 6.

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IMPROVEMENT m COTTON TIES.

JOHN W. HEDEN-BERG', OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.-

Letters Patent No. 60,187, dated December 4, 1866.

SPECIFICATION- TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I v

Be it known that I, JOHN W. HEDE NBERQof the city of Chicago, in thecounty of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Cotton Tie and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature and object of my invention are to produce a cheap and eflieient cotton tie, that can be used by planters and all others in securing cotton or any material which it isdesigned to pack in the ordinary form of bale, which will not be released or u'nfastened in handling. i

To enable others skilled inthe art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation. I V

In the construction of my cotton tieI make use of ordinary hoop or band iron of the requisite width.

Figure 1 represents the two ends'of the band of iron used in forming the tie, united and ready for use.

Figure 2' is a crosssection of the same through the line 2: x, fig. 1. V

A A are the two ends of the hand brought togetherand overlapping each other sufiiciently to answer the purpose desired. B B are slots out in the end of the band, overlapped, and in the shape and form designated in the drawing. 0 is the key fastened to the other end of the band; this key is made in a peculiar shape, ,with one side extending much further from the centre pivot than the other, and the surface of the head made to incline to an angle of about ten degrees; this key is also fastened permanently to one end of the band. The

end of the band to which it is fastened is turned so as to form a double thickness, throughwhich the key passes;

' to unclasp it, constructed and operated in the manner herein described.

or it may be made with a washer insteadlof the end being turned. The object of this is to give greater strength to this part. I employ two or more keys of this characterin making my tie- The slots, B B, are cut wider-at certain points than at other parts of the slot; this is to introduce the keys. The distance from centre to centre of these widened parts of the slots is greater or less than the distance from centre to centre of the keys; the object of this is to prevent the unlocking of the keys. The operation of my invention is as follows The band having been passed around the bale, the two ends having been brought together, they-the two ends of the band-areslightly twisted in opposite directions, and then, by a lateral motion, the keys, 0 O, are inserted in the slots, B B, at their widestpoints, when the keys are slipped along to the ends of the slots, and the tie is complete. It is believed this tic will do away with the objection hitherto existing incotton ties, of unfastening or unlocking. when a bale comes between two or more other bales and is thus slightly compressed, itrequiring a lateral motion to unlock this tie; and by this method I am enabled to use two or more keys and secure greater strength.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' A cotton tie, with one or more keys, 0, so made and arranged as torequire a lateral movemeutto clasp and JOHN W. HEDENBERG. Witnesses:

JAB. A. COWLES,

JOHN Bnowzm. 

